Chic Art—and Noisy Too

Oct. 17, 2013 10:08 p.m. ET

At the Brooklyn Museum next week, the art will speak to visitors—literally. "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk," which opens next Friday and runs through February, features mannequins that blink, chat, sing and recite poetry.

People "almost expect them to start walking," said the show's curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot, who has been working this month to install the show in Brooklyn, the traveling exhibit's seventh city so far. "It's a very challenging...